Madonna to Jeff Bezos: Invest Some of Your Billions in Detroit

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You may have noticed that for the past couple of years, the Motor City has been busy mounting a comeback. Plenty of people are rooting for Detroit to get its groove back, including, it turns out, Madonna.

Madonna is a native of metro Detroit, but her affection for the city has not been a lifelong phenomenon. Those of us who have been following her career since childhood know that her creation story emphasized fleeing the state a few months into a University of Michigan dance scholarship. For many years, she would openly disparage her former hometown as being the pinnacle of flyover dumpiness.

Those days seem to be over, because on Wednesday, the Detroit Free Pressreported that Madonna was on Twitter over the weekend urging Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos to sprinkle some of his billions on Detroit. The tweet reads, in part, “you, me, the motor city. Let’s go and I will show incredible opportunities for almost instant impact in one of the coolest cities in America.”